The Strategy Unit is an NHS team that provides analysis, evaluation and strategy support to health and care organisations, hosted by NHS Midlands and Lancashire. As well as running the Midlands Decision Support Network, it publishes recordings of many of its webinars on YouTube, including:
- SU Insights - discussions of current issues in health and care with expert panels, such as contracting for health outcomes, the downsides of digital, and the Neighbourhood Insights series on neighbourhood health
- National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme (NNHIP) evaluation and analysis community of practice - drop-in sessions on measuring and analysing neighbourhood health, such as the Neighbourhood Index and opportunities to shift care out of hospitals
- ICS intelligence functions - webinars from 2022 in which integrated care systems shared what they had learned from developing their intelligence functions
- Decision Support Units - webinars from 2021 on the progress of the Midlands Decision Support Units and their analysis of inequalities, including in access to planned care and in children and young people’s mental health
- Population health management - the Midlands Population Health Management Academy’s webinar series, with speakers including Professor Sir Muir Gray, Professor Al Mulley and Professor Mohammed Mohammed, and introductions to methods such as logic models, qualitative methods and using evidence
- End of life analysis - walkthroughs of the Strategy Unit’s 2020 report on healthcare use in the last two years of life
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| Webinar | Year | Series | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neighbourhood INSIGHTS: What can the NHS learn from neighbourhood working in other policy areas? | 2026 | SU Insights | Join the Strategy Unit for the next session in the Neighbourhood INSIGHTS series, exploring how evidence and analysis can support the shift from hospital to community. The NHS is developing its approach to neighbourhood working. Together with partners in other services and sectors, it is devising… |
| The risks of risk stratification in neighbourhood health | 2026 | SU Insights | Neighbourhoods INSIGHTS’ Series -The risks of risk stratification in neighbourhood health The theory behind risk stratification is seductive. Almost irresistible in fact. It is that running algorithms over (mainly) primary care data will allow services to spot individual patients at high risk of… |
| ‘Neighbourhood INSIGHTS’ series - Looking back, looking forward | 2026 | SU Insights | ‘Neighbourhood INSIGHTS’ series - Looking back, looking forward What the past and the future tell us about neighbourhood health |
| SU Insights Downsides of Digital | 2025 | SU Insights | This event in collaboration with the Health Foundation featuring Professor Trish Greenhalgh and experts explored the critical questions on the downsides of digital, drawing on research to reflect the implications of digital technology in health and care. There is widespread enthusiasm for the use… |
| SU Insights - Contracting for Health Outcomes | 2024 | SU Insights | The inaugural ‘SU Insights’ session explore the evolving landscape of “Contracting for health outcomes”. The concept of outcomes-based commissioning was a hot topic in health policy around 15 years ago. Innovative contracting models were promoted as a way to transform the way services were paid… |
| Is ‘Do With’ the essence of neighbourhood health? | 2026 | SU Insights | Event 3: Is ‘Do With’ the essence of neighbourhood health? Neighbourhood health is often discussed in terms of services: how they are structured, funded and delivered. But at its heart, it is about something more fundamental - relationships. In particular, the relationships between services and the… |
| NNHIP Evaluation and Analysis CoP: Drop in Sesssion NNHIP Care Shift Tracker | 2026 | NNHIP evaluation and analysis community of practice | NNHIP Evaluation and Analysis CoP: Drop in Sesssion NNHIP Care Shift Tracker - 04.03.26 In this Evaluation and Analysis Community of Practice drop-in session, there was and demo of a tool that is being developed to offer a system-wide view using a range of indicators to help spot emerging patterns,… |
| NNHIP Evaluation and Analysis CoP: Drop-in session: Opportunities to shift care in my Place 18/02/26 | 2026 | NNHIP evaluation and analysis community of practice | Topic: Where are the opportunities to shift care from acute hospitals, in my Place? In this Evaluation and Analysis Community of Practice drop-in session, there was and demo of a tool that is being developed to help identify the types of hospital activity that could be done in a different way or… |
| NNHIP Evaluation and Analysis Community of Practice (CoP): Drop-in session: Measurement Guide | 2026 | NNHIP evaluation and analysis community of practice | Topic: NNHIP Measurement Guide Q&A session In this second Evaluation and Analysis Community of Practice drop-in session, we covered key questions, and next steps, around the Measurement Guide and the Neighbourhood Index. About The Evaluation and Analysis Community of Practice (CoP) is part of the… |
| NNHIP Evaluation & Analysis CoP - 21/1/26 - Subject: Neighbourhood Index | 2026 | NNHIP evaluation and analysis community of practice | The National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme (NNHIP) Evaluation and Analysis Community of Practice (CoP), has been set up as part of the NNHIP Intelligence Centre. This CoP has been created directly in response to feedback that it would be helpful to have a dedicated space for local… |
| Developing your ICS Intelligence Function, learning MDSN and Black Country ICS 04/05/22 | 2022 | ICS intelligence functions | Hear what Midlands Decision Support Network and Black Country ICS had to say about developing an Intelligence Function, webinar on 04/05/22 |
| Developing your ICS Intelligence Function, learning from Kent and Medway ICS - 20/05/22 | 2022 | ICS intelligence functions | Hear what Kent and Medway ICS had to say about developing their Intelligence Function, webinar on 20/05/22 |
| Developing your ICS Intelligence Function, learning from the Local knowledge & Intelligence Service | 2022 | ICS intelligence functions | Hear what the Local knowledge & Intelligence Service had to say about developing an Intelligence Function, webinar on 06/05/22 |
| Developing your ICS Intelligence Function, learning from South West London Health & Care Partnership | 2022 | ICS intelligence functions | Hear what South West London had to say about developing their Intelligence Function, webinar on 03/05/22 |
| Intelligence Function Webinar Introduction | 2022 | ICS intelligence functions | ICS Intelligence Functions (IF) have been described as part of the ICS infrastructure in NHSE/I’s Integrating Care, and the ICS Design Framework. NHSE/I are set to release guidance to systems to support their IF journey. This includes further detail on what an IF is, what they should look like, and… |
| Progress in a local system DSU - Black Country and West Birmingham ICS | 2021 | Decision Support Units | |
| Overview of our inequality in access to planned care report | 2021 | Decision Support Units | |
| Overview of the Midlands Decision Support Network and progress to date | 2021 | Decision Support Units | |
| Children and Young People Mental Health inequalities webinar 170621 | 2021 | Decision Support Units | |
| Inequalities in access to elective hospital care | 2021 | Decision Support Units | |
| CYPMH Inequalities Webinar 170621 V2 | 2021 | Decision Support Units | |
| An Introduction to the Midlands PHM Academy – July 2019 | Population health management | Fraser Battye, Programme Director, provides an overview of the Midlands PHM Academy | |
| PHM Lessons Learned Webinar - March 2020 | Population health management | Fraser Battye and Lucy Hawkins share their reflections on the programme. This webinar forms part of our ‘lessons learned’ series | |
| Professor Al Mulley, The Dartmouth Institute, on Learning from variation; making visible processes. | Population health management | The third in our summer webinar series. Al Mulley talks about how we can learn from variation warranted and unwarranted, to deliver what is valued. | |
| Dr Abeda Mulla Qualitative Methods Webinar | Population health management | An introduction to Qualitative Methods with Dr Abeda Mulla from the Strategy Unit | |
| Professor Sir Muir Gray, The Oxford Centre for Triple Value Healthcare. | Population health management | The first in our 2019 Summer webinar series, Professor Sir Muir Gray explains his five key tasks for Population Health Management. | |
| What do we mean by ‘community’? | Population health management | Muir Gray and Robin Miller discuss what we mean by community, how that is changing with technology and the implications for health and social care. | |
| PHM Evidence Webinar by Alison Turner | Population health management | An introduction to using evidence in Health and Social Care with Alison Turner | |
| Logic Models Webinar with Fraser Battye | Population health management | An introduction to Logic Models with Fraser Battye, The Strategy Unit. | |
| Public Health England’s PHM Tools Webinar by Nicola Dennis | Population health management | As part of our Academy webinar series, Nicola Dennis from Public Health England provides an introduction to the Population Health Management tools available from PHE. | |
| Professor Mohammed Mohammed, The Strategy Unit, on: Systems thinking and the science of improvement | Population health management | Professor Mohammed A Mohammed has continued the series of the Midlands PHM Academy with his webinar on Systems thinking and the Science of Improvement. | |
| Perspectives on PHM: Professor Robin Miller | Population health management | Professor Robin Miller gives his perspective on the value of PHM as a practice. | |
| Perspectives on PHM: Professor Sir Muir Gray | Population health management | Professor Sir Muir Gray gives his perspectives on the value of PHM as a practice. | |
| Perspectives on PHM: Professor Mohammed A Mohammed | Population health management | Professor Mohammed A Mohammed gives his perspective on the value of PHM as a practice. | |
| Perspectives on PHM: Professor Albert Mulley | Population health management | Professor Albert Mulley gives his perspective on the value of PHM as a practise. | |
| Belinda Weir Systems Leadership Webinar | Population health management | An introduction to Systems Leadership with Belinda Weir from the Centre for Health and Care Leadership at the University of Birmingham. | |
| Professor Robin Miller and Professor Jon Glasby on: PHM and integration | Population health management | The fourth in our summer series, Professor Jon Glasby and Robin Miller discuss the importance of joint work between the NHS and local government, and why local government matters to population health management. | |
| End of Life Analysis Matters by Peter Spilsbury | 2020 | End of life analysis | |
| Report Topic 1 - Background to the Report | 2020 | End of life analysis | |
| Report Topic 2 - People and Place | 2020 | End of life analysis | |
| Report Topic 3 - Service Use | 2020 | End of life analysis | |
| Report Topic 4 - Final Weeks of Life | 2020 | End of life analysis |
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You can also browse all of the playlists on the Strategy Unit’s YouTube channel.
The Strategy Unit’s other recordings are listed separately in the Atlas: Midlands Decision Support Network training, the Insight festival, the Analyst Network Huddles, and training on the New Hospital Programme Demand Model.
To search these recordings alongside talks, webinars and workshops from other communities, use the Recordings Finder.